SCUFFLER'S DEATH LABELED NATURAL.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer NEWHALL - An elderly man who died a week ago, after a scuffle at the American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The preamble to the organization's constitution, adopted at the convention in St. Louis that same year, expresses its purposes in part as "to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Hall in Newhall, previously suffered from heart disease, coroner's officials said. A coroner's report listed the cause of death for Robert Cooke, 77, of Newhall as atherosclerotic heart disease, a degeneration of the arteries. ``He was involved in the altercation, but it turns out that the coroner's examination has ruled that he died ... a natural death,'' said David Campbell, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. ``He had an existing medical condition.'' Authorities said Cooke was involved in a brief shoving match with a 69- year-old man shortly after 9 p.m. July 5 at the Post 507 Legion Hall on Spruce Street. During the scuffle, Cooke fell over a table. He was able to get up but collapsed about five minutes later. He was transported to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. |
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